Swiss Civil Code

¹The new law gov­erns adult pro­tec­tion as soon as the Amend­ment of 19 Decem­ber 2008² comes in­to force.

²Per­sons who have been made wards of court un­der the pre­vi­ous law shall be made sub­ject to a gen­er­al deputy­ship un­der the new law. The adult pro­tec­tion au­thor­ity shall ad­apt to the new law as soon as pos­sible. Un­less the au­thor­ity has de­cided oth­er­wise in the case of ex­ten­ded par­ent­al re­spons­ib­il­ity, par­ents are ex­empt from the ob­lig­a­tion to pre­pare an in­vent­ory, re­port and file ac­counts reg­u­larly and to ob­tain con­sent for cer­tain trans­ac­tions.

³Oth­er meas­ures ordered un­der the pre­vi­ous law cease to ap­ply three years after the Amend­ment of 19 Decem­ber 2008 comes in­to force un­less the adult pro­tec­tion au­thor­ity trans­forms them in­to a meas­ure un­der the new law.

⁴Where a doc­tor based on Art­icle 397b para­graph 2 in its ver­sion of 1 Janu­ary 1981³ ordered the care-re­lated de­ten­tion of a men­tally ill per­son, this meas­ure shall con­tin­ue to ap­ply. The rel­ev­ant in­sti­tu­tion shall no­ti­fy the adult pro­tec­tion au­thor­ity six months at the latest after the new law comes in­to force wheth­er it re­garded the re­quire­ments for hos­pit­al­isa­tion to be met. The adult pro­tec­tion au­thor­ity shall carry out the re­quired en­quir­ies in ac­cord­ance with the pro­vi­sions on reg­u­lar re­view and if ap­plic­able con­firm the hos­pit­al­isa­tion de­cision.